Lexic.us

Definition of Shoot down

1. Verb. Move quickly and violently. "He came charging into my office"

2. Verb. Shoot at and force to come down. "The enemy landed several of our aircraft"

3. Verb. Thwart the passage of. "He shot down the student's proposal"

Definition of Shoot down

1. Verb. (transitive) To cause to fall by shooting. ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic) To criticize a (request) to the point of preclusion. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoot Down

shoon shoops shoos shoot-'em-up shoot-'em-ups shoot-down shoot-em-up shoot-out shoot-outs shoot 'em up

shoot 'em ups shoot a line shoot down (current term) shoot first and ask questions later shoot for shoot for the stars shoot from the hip shoot me shoot off shoot off at the mouth

shoot one's bolt shoot one's mouth off shoot oneself in the foot shoot out shoot the boots shoot the breeze

Literary usage of Shoot down

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1918)
"... England and the thought was suggested to him that he might be arrested in England: he then said he would shoot down the first officer that arrested him. ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"His evidence is that if he had been allowed to shoot down the loose coal and to have put the track up, he would have escaped injury. ..."

3. Tent Life in Tigerland: With which is Incorporated Sport and Work on the by James Inglis (1892)
"... to shoot at moving jungle—Never shoot down the line—Motions of different animals in the grass. ..."

4. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"I. a. to shoot down, bring down by shoot ing, to destroy or level with the ground (by cannon shots); ... shoot down, descend rapidly; — fd)tug, (ifr., pi. ..."

5. Bulletin by Kentucky Geological Survey (1907)
"In the wide stopes 4 men handling 2 air drills shoot down 50 tons per ... One air drill and 2 men in an 8-foot stope shoot down about 10 tons per shift. ..."

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